Jaime Lerner Quotes

A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.

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• When I started acting, it was like a double identity crisis - your basic crisis, compounded by people saying, 'there goes Robards' kid, Bacall's kid.' Now I realize, sure, that gets your foot in the door, but once it's there, it's your foot. I'm not bothered anymore. I'm confident of my abilities.

  

  Sam Robards
  • People
  • Door
  • Identity

• I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Feeling
  • Band
  • Same

• Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Dark
  • Name
  • Immigration

• I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Man
  • Me
  • Military

• My health is fine.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Health
  • Fine

• When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

  

  Oliver North
  • You
  • Trust
  • Information

• I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'

  

  G. W. Bailey
  • Character
  • America
  • Guy

• As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Mother
  • Legal

• My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Political
  • Spiritual
  • Islam

• The economic costs of starting your own business can be significant; in fact, most new startup companies fail because of undercapitalization.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Economic
  • Starting

• Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without OLGA.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • World
  • Live
  • Start

• We don't go against the will of the people.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Will
  • Against

• Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Words
  • Attention
  • Behavior

• I don't know if I'm a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. I was like, 'Mum, it hurts.'

  

  FKA twigs
  • Remember
  • Soul
  • Feeling

• Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Home
  • Easy
  • Coffee

• When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers!

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Light
  • Purpose
  • Darkness

• Was there ever yet any thing written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Progress

• The giant squid is the perfect embodiment of a sea monster: it is huge, it has tentacles, it has big eyes, and it is absolutely frightening-looking. But, most important, it is real. Unlike the Loch Ness monster, we know it's out there.

  

  David Grann
  • Important
  • Real
  • Perfect

• This has been a huge problem for a very long period of time that we have, that Mexico's economy and Mexico's socialist orientation makes it so that people want to come to the United States in such numbers. I wish that we could figure out a way to do this in a legal fashion because I believe in the Latino culture.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• Oh, God. Mate, I've written about 800 songs, and that's no exaggeration!

  

  Anne-Marie
  • God

• We are not a postwar generation, but a pre-peace generation. Jesus is coming.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Peace
  • Jesus
  • Generation

• A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.

  

  Jaime Lerner
  • People
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